Brooke Hanson OLY OAM

Olympic Gold & Silver medallist empowers people to live a purpose driven life

Inspirational international speaker, this amazing lady is an 8 - time world champion swimmer - who represented Australia over 25 times at major international events.

Brooke has built a successful career as an inspirational speaker, master of ceremonies, media consultant, author, energy management coach, mentor, facilitator, TV and radio presenter as well as a healthy active mother.

Brooke loves sharing her story on resilience, adversity, success, balance, motivation, happiness and well-being.

She shares how to embrace what’s important through passion, purpose, love, leadership and finding internal strength to persevere in the face of your biggest challenges.

Brooke empowers people to find the keys to leadership success using self-belief, accountability and positivity

‘Strong Women Don’t need Muscles’

Embracing what’s important through passion, purpose, love, leadership and finding internal strength to persevere in the face of your biggest challenges.

Brooke empowers women to find strength from within as the strongest women shine from within.
Her journey as a career woman whilst raising a family and running her own business has given her a true understanding on the pressure women face.

Brooke looks forward to encouraging the audience to make “WAVES” by striving for vision, excellence and celebrating your success along the way. Providing tips for juggling the daily pressures of the full workload and expectations on women to be wonder women and share how she copes with the fast-paced life as an active mum. “I’m not giving you an Olympic Gold Medal because your busier than me”, Brooke will break down “busyness” and why women in particular wear it like a badge of honour.

The swimming star remains one of Australia's most recognised Olympians. Brooke is a vibrant  high energy presenter she loves sharing her story and keys to Energy Health performance and leadership success by encouraging self-belief, accountability and finding purpose through positivity.

Her bubbly personality, authentic delivery and natural stage presence has been pleasantly received at the thousands of events she’s presented at. Brooke has become a source of inspiration to many people through her story of resilience, determination and her positive outlook after much heartache is motivating.


Despite everything that Brooke has faced in her swimming career and beyond she has dedicated her speaking career to helping individuals and businesses achieve personal and team greatness.
Brooke has continued to manage to find happiness and face every difficulty with a smile and loves nothing more than to share her inspirational story with everyone she meets.

The life lessons, compassion and growth she has learnt through her experiences gives Brooke an opportunity to share her story and the tools she has gained that have resulted with successful outcomes.

Brooke’s focus is on resilience, energy - health, adversity, success, balance, motivation, happiness and well-being. She shares how to embrace what’s important through passion, purpose, love, leadership and finding internal strength to persevere in the face of your biggest challenges.

Brooke fulfilled a childhood dream, when after missing two Olympic teams in 1996 and 2000, she won Olympic gold and silver medals in Athens. She created history at the 2004 World Short Course Championships where she won a record six gold medals – five individual and the 4x100m medley relay in world record time.

The Olympic champion continues to enjoy a successful career for herself as a television personality, product ambassador and balances her professional media career with; motherhood, appearances, hosting, motivational speaking, charity events, swim clinics and her commitment to promoting a healthy and active lifestyle for all Australians.

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